Critter’s Krib

That’s right, I said it. The bird flu will be here soon and we are all going to die. So screw it, go ahead and max out your credit cards, open up
as many new ones as you can. Stop paying your bills, except of course, utilities for the time being. Live it up, though. We probably only have another year,
two at the most. Get on with it.

I should get on with it, but I’m not feeling all that motivated at the moment. I am not particularly tired, but I have no interest in staying up late. OMG,
I am getting old.

Did I mention Brandy, the troublesome goofy dane got out of her pen the other day? I am so tired of dealing with this, it is driving me crazy. And, of course,
everytime Brandy gets out, one of the neighbors phones animal control on her. Bastards! If I don’t find out who did it, I will just destroy them all.
Muwahahahahaha. So… I think Brandy jumped over the gate this time, as it looked like it was sagging just a tad. I have now secured the air space above
the gate now as well. Fingers crossed this keeps her in. Animal control left a note and threatened us with fines in excess of $400. Bastards, threaten me
will ya? We shall see *digs potatoe canon out of garage* I’m ready!

I would advise against just showing up at the house. Phone first, for your safety.

My apologies for the double notification that went
out. My automated script shagged the first remote post. My bad.

Look who arrived today! She is an absolute beauty. I have decided to name her Razz. These
aren’t the greatest pictures, but they will do for now.
I will get more of her once she settles in a bit.

Needless to say, I am very excited about our future addition. I have yet to come up with a name, but am thinking
something along the lines of a light raspberry-ish drink name.

Currently we have:

• Corona (snake)
• Smirnoff (snake)
• Jinn & Tonik (bearded dragons)
• Jaeger (tortoise)
• Cosmo (cat)
• Malibu (cat)
• Brandy (dane)

And the few non-alcoholic ones:

• Adam & Eve (snakes)
• Jill (iguana)

Got any suggestions?

It’s not what you think, I swear! We have been planning on picking these guys up once they hatched
out for ages. Well, it finally happened yesterday. I only have Gyn pictured above, Tonyk was a bit
uncooperative, and I really did not want to stress them out on their first day. They are so small,
but aren’t they cute?

So here you go buddy, these guys will be waiting here when you get back from the UK I’ll keep them
company until you get back.

I took the beast to the vet’s this morning for her checkup. She’s a healthy horse and weighed in at 105 lbs. The visit cost a bit more than I had originally planned, but I had to pick up a 6 month supply of heatworm and flea stuff, so that added to the bill nicely.

It’s funny, I lose perspective of exactly how big Brandy is, due to seeing her on a daily basis. Everyone at the clinic kept commenting on her size. Their jaws dropped even more when they found out she is only a year and a half old. She kept standing up on the counter. She must stand about 6.5 feet tall when she’s propped herself up.

Above are a few recent pictures and a few old ones. She was so cute and goofy. Now she is just goofy, but at least she has a wiser look to her

Our tortoise, Jaeger, is growing like a weed. He has quite the personality. I can often here him clicking his beak when he is eating. He also makes the cutest little “cries” sometimes.

Corona, the albino burmese, is doing fabulous, and growing at a nice steady pace, not too quickly and not too slowly. I still have to scent all of his food with a chick, but other than that, all is well. He has a great temperment and is very well behaved around Talon

‘Noff (short for Smirnoff), is the albino green burmese. She is a bit more like a female.. touchy, but in the end she mainly just makes a lot of noise then settles down. Wow, I didn’t realize exactly how much like a chick she is!

Anyway, these are just a few of the photos I shot outside today. I could snap pictures all day long. Hey, someone should pay me to do that!

I do not care how “hardcore” you are. Having to defrost a chick along with every rat you feed your burmese, isn’t
all that bad. It’s the cutting open of the chick and having to smear it’s blood on the rat so the silly snake will
eat it that can does bother me. There is just something about it. Blah!

Stupid snake.

Corona downed a nice sized rat the other day. Not before I had to scent it with chicken blood, though. He is such a picky eater. Sometimes, he will gobble up the rats without any hesitation. Other times, I have to thaw out a chick along with the rat so that I can put a small bit of chick blood on the rat. He goes mad for that.

In the pictures above, you can see Smirnoff sitting on top of Corona

while the sight of a snake devouring a rat is not a sight a lot of people enjoy seeing. but, i have to say, it totally amazes me everytime i see it. the fact the snake can unhinge it’s jaws, and stretch it’s body to accommodate the food. too cool!